Posts Tagged ‘Stephen Campbell Moore’

How to Talk to Girls at Parties has shown me one first: Hawaiian-born and Australia-raised Nicole Kidman with a Cockney accent… and shouting “We Are England!” Hmm… It’s 1977 – the year of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, and schoolboys Enn (Alex Sharp), John (Ethan Lawrence) and Vic (AJ Lewis) stumble upon the weirdest party, which […]

How to Talk to Girls at Parties, from John Cameron Mitchell, director of the acclaimed Hedwig and the Angry Inch, takes us to an exotic and unusual world: suburban London in the late 70s. Under the spell of the Sex Pistols, every teenager in the country wants to be a punk, including our hopeless hero […]

The Last Post takes place in 1965 in Aden, Yemen, one of the oldest colonies in the British Empire. It’s a place where East meets West and with an oil refinery, it’s advertisted as a place of prosperity. In addition, the Queen calls it “A perfect example of colonial rule”, and out there, it’s so […]

The Child in Time is a one-off drama based on Ian McEwan‘s novel, presenting a Madeleine McCann-type situation beginning with Stephen Lewis (Benedict Cumberbatch), in a supermarket, turning his attention from four-year-old daughter Kate away for a second, leaving him completely bereft as he desperately searches for her. She was there one minute, and then […]

Goodbye Christopher Robin is centered around the relationship between children’s author AA Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) and his son Christopher Robin, whose toys inspired the magical world of Winnie the Pooh. Along with his mother Daphne (Margot Robbie), and his nanny Olive, the lad and his family are swept up in the international success of the […]

Moonwalkers is a new comedy which tries to get across the apparent fact that the Apollo 11 moon landings never happened and that eccentric movie director Stanley Kubrick filmed those famous images in a film studio whilst working for the US government. Set in London, this conspiracy theory that in a stubborn CIA agent trying […]

The Lady in the Van has a simple premise that states: “A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her car that’s parked in his driveway.” However, that man is writer extraordinaire Alan Bennett, played brilliantly – based on this trailer – by Alex Jennings, and the woman is Miss Shepherd […]

The Go-Between is set in Norfolk, 1900, but begins in 1950 with the elderly Leo Colston (Jim Broadbent) lamenting in bucketfully. He wails (in his narration), “The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.” He’s trying to hide the past, but realises he can never shake it off while it still haunts […]

Dragon Age: Inquisition, the third instalment in Bioware’s fantasy universe is upon us, it is welcoming to new and old players alike. You don’t have to have played Origins or Dragon Age 2 to understand the story or what is going on, you literally just jump into this new game and start off questing to […]

Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag is the fourth game I’ve played in the series, following the original, which I couldn’t really get into as the fact that it kept jumping back to the present day and I found that very jarring; then 2011’s Assassins Creed Revelations which resolved a great deal of the issues I […]